wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Herman Melville: A Biography
ISBN: 9780801881862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 1056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville--a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize--closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to his intimate friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the man to whom the work was dedicated. -Take it all in all, - Parker concluded, -this was the happiest day of Melville's life.- Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891 chronicles Melville's life in rich detail, from this... The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville--a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize--closed on a mid-November day ... |
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207,88 zł |
Herman Melville: A Biography
ISBN: 9780801881855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a -man who lived among the cannibals - Until his death in 1891, Melville was known as the author of Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847)--both semiautobiographical travel books, and literary sensations because of Melville's sensual description of the South Sea islanders. (A transatlantic furor raged over whether the books were fact or fiction.) His most famous character was Fayaway--not Captain Ahab, not the White Whale, not Bartleby, and... Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a ... |
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Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative
ISBN: 9780810127098 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 587 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker's history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by his intimate working relationships with great Melvilleans, dead and living. The first part is a mesmerizing autobiographical account of what went into creating his award-winning two-volume life of Herman Melville. Next, Parker traces six decades the persistent war New Critics have waged against biographical scholarship on Melville. American literary critics, he finds, impose New Critical theories of organic unity on Melville's disrupted career even while truncating his... Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker's history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by his intimate working relati... |
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300,88 zł |
Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority and American Fiction
ISBN: 9780810106673 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An evaluation of the importance of textual criticism in evaluation of important literary works, based on his study of important American literary works by authors such as James, Crane, and Mailer.
An evaluation of the importance of textual criticism in evaluation of important literary works, based on his study of important American literary work...
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109,14 zł |
Moby-Dick
ISBN: 9780393285000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "One of the great strengths of this third edition is Hershel Parker's inclusion of commentary on Moby-Dick from its publication in 1851 right into the 21st century to answer why Moby-Dick--boisterous, beautiful, filled with soaring language, forever questioning, and nearly 200 years old--is more popular than ever." --MARY K. BERCAW EDWARDS, University of Connecticut
"One of the great strengths of this third edition is Hershel Parker's inclusion of commentary on Moby-Dick from its publication in 1851 r...
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71,06 zł |
The Confidence-Man
ISBN: 9780393979275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries onThe Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers. A new section, "Biographical Overviews," embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melville's life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melville's life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others "Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism" is...
"Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries onThe Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today ...
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92,95 zł |
Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews
ISBN: 9780521414234 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of his writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific works and show the course of Melville's nineteenth century reputation as travel writer, romancer, short-story writer, and poet.
Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of his writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891...
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